My very talented friend Clarke Ching has self-published his second novel Rocks into Gold (his first, Rolling Rocks Downhill, is due out later this year). Rocks into Gold is a “parable for software developers who want to survive — and then thrive — through the Credit Crunch”. If you’re a subscriber to this blog you’ll… [Read more…]
September 15, 2008
Way back in 1999 Martin Fowler published Refactoring — Improving the Design of Existing Code. Fowler’s book introduced the world to refactoring as an independent practice, and provides dozens of detailed mechanical recipes, each of which describes the steps needed to change one (usually small) aspect of a program’s design without breaking anything or changing… [Read more…]
April 26, 2006
The April meeting of the AgileNorth group was a comparative review of 'Lean Software Development' and 'Agile Software Development with Scrum'
January 23, 2006
If agile software development is linked to the principles of lean manufacturing, what should I read for background information?
March 13, 2005
Here's my instance of the 123.5 meme. Spookily it reveals the central message of the book I'm currently reading
November 4, 2004
In which Lean Software Development by the Poppendiecks is reviewed
I'm Kevin Rutherford, from Macclesfield in the UK. I'm an independent agile software coach and mentor, specialising in test-driven development, agile, lean and the theory of constraints.
January 18, 2009
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